Best Happy Hours in Nashville

Three blocks of Woodland Street in East Nashville hold more usable happy hour than the whole of lower Broadway. Drifters at 1008B lists two-for-one beers and wells from 2 to 6 on weekdays, plus all day Wednesday and Sunday. The Lipstick Lounge at 1400 lists half off beers on Monday afternoons. Up-Down at 927 lists a dollar off Tennessee beer from 3 PM to 3 AM, the longest single window on this page.

Broadway still has the most entries of any street in the city by a wide margin, but the honky-tonks sell the room rather than the discount, and their listed deals are thin. Value sits a few blocks out. Tin Roof on Demonbreun Street lists $3 drafts and $4 wells, with Mondays running all day. Beyond The Edge on South 11th lists two-for-one Yazoos.

Two-for-one pricing, banned outright in several states, is legal here and common enough to be a strategy: look for it before you look at cocktail prices. Draft beer leads everything else in the listings, and no cocktail special comes close.

The catch is the calendar. About one Nashville listing in thirteen includes a Saturday or Sunday, among the tightest weekend coverage in this top fifty. Windows open at 3 PM marginally more often than at 4, which is unusual for a market this size, and most are finished by 6.